OK then... Here's a gypsy star dance where the star doesn't start in interwoven long waves. From a dance choreography workshop. Been waiting for me to wrap my brain around it and publish it for a year and a half now.. It actually works and is easier to dance than it might appear at first glance. It has a figure that Peter Johnson had dreamed up and had been sitting on for a while.. Guess then *I* sat on it. Not sure if anyone else of the authors published it any where. If so, I didn't see it..  - bill

Stellar Gypsy   Becket

by: Bill Olson, Peter Johnson, Riley Geistman, Sam Smith, Ray Jantzen, Laura Garchar, Patricia Danscen, Anthony Risenhoover, Peter Koza, Tina Fields, Hamish ?

A1 promenade 3/4*, Swing new N (on ladies' home side)

A2 1/2 R&L, W 1/2 chain (to partner)

B1 LLF&B, Arch to Gypsy Star** (facing partner, move Star 1/2 way)

B2 Gypsy and Sw Partner (on home side)

*Promenade 3/4 is just continuing a normal promenade another 1/4 position so dancers are across from partner

**Arch to Gypsy Star (concept was presented by Peter Johnson): Make Arch, walk forward, Ladies walk through arches.. when hands are all together, women take Left hands across and Men take Right hands across to form the Gypsy Star (women's hands under, men's hand over). Looking partner in the eye women sort of "draw" the men half way around the star. (the women are actually doing a do sa do pattern with each other here)

written at a dance choreography workshop at Stellar Days and Nights dance weekend in Colorado, Feb 2016